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This photograph is of the mail coach on display in The Postal Museum. Mail coach guards were employed by the Post Office to protect the mail. By the mid Victorian period (1850s) mail coaches had been replaced by the railways.
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4. ©The Postal Museum, 2009 – 0010 ©The Postal Museum, 2009 – 0010
This print shows the lioness attacking the Exeter mail coach. In the background is a large house with people at the window observing what is going on.
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5. ©Royal Mail Group Ltd, courtesy of The Postal Museum, POST 118
This playbill for Ballard’s Circus lists the attractions including the LIONESS who attacked the mail coach.
©Royal Mail Group Ltd, courtesy of The Postal Museum, POST 118